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We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
blndbmbshltr
Oh shit, they’ve figured me out
shunn
Bob told me about this entry before I saw it. The first words out of my mouth: “Separated at birth.” He just started to laugh.
shunn
Re: Oh shit, they’ve figured me out
Damn. I wanted to be the <blink> tag.
couscous1021
Now you and Bob should do that rational sober crazy person test i’ve been seeing. If you get the same result again, I’d sit down with your respective parents and have a chat 🙂
shunn
We got different results, thank God!
admin
Re: Oh shit, they’ve figured me out
That got a big laugh out of me. I don’t know enough people who’re irredeemable. This should be fun. I also haven’t met too many veterans on LJ (probably the lefty circles I travel in). Welcome to the Monkey House, Natasha.
admin
Yeah, Bill and I were comparing notes at the office and laughing our asses off over those personality tests.
blndbmbshltr
Re: Oh shit, they’ve figured me out
Hmmm, from the snake pit to the monkey house. Should be interesting.
I actually have a few friends, not on LJ, who are veterans and who are very liberal. I don’t know if it’s because I live in Austin or if it’s just because birds of a feather flock together.
admin
Re: Oh shit, they’ve figured me out
I’m a liberal and a veteran (Coast Guard and Army Reserve), and I live in New York City, but I don’t know many other liberal veterans personally.
blndbmbshltr
Re: Oh shit, they’ve figured me out
Well then, I guess I do have an LJ friend who is a liberal veteran. It’s about time…. 🙂